اینک

Azerbaijani

Noun

اینک (inək) (definite accusative اینیی (inəyi), plural اینکلر (inəklər))

1. Arabic spelling of inək (“cow”)

Declension

Declension of اینک

	singular	plural
nominative	اینک	اینکلر
definite accusative	اینیی	اینکلری
dative	اینیه	اینکلره
locative	اینکده	اینکلرده
ablative	اینکدن	اینکلردن
definite genitive	اینیین	اینکلرین

Chagatai

اینک

Etymology

Inherited from Karakhanid انكك (ingek), from Proto-Turkic *ingek (“cow”). Cognate with Azerbaijani inək, Chuvash ӗне (ĕne), Kyrgyz инек (inek, “cow”), Tuvan инек (inek), and Turkish inek.

Noun

اینک (inäk)

1. cow

Descendants

• Uyghur: ئىنەك (inek)

Further reading

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “اینک”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 141
• Jarring, Gunnar (1964) “اینک”, in An Eastern Turki-English Dialect Dictionary‎^[2], C.W.K. Gleerup, page 80
• el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) “اینک”, in لغت چغتای و ترکی عثمانی [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary]‎^[3] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 63
• Schluessel, Eric (2018) “اینک”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎^[4], Michigan Publishing, page 45

Persian

Alternative forms

• نک (nak) (poetic contraction)

Etymology

این (in) +‎ ـک (-ak, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔiː.ˈnak]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiː.nǽk]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiː.nǽk]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔiː.nǽk]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔi.nǽk]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiː.nǽkʲ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.nǽk]

Readings
Classical reading?	īnak
Dari reading?	īnak
Iranian reading?	inak
Tajik reading?	inak

Interjection

اینک • (inak)

1. lo! behold!
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 189:

     اینک این خلعت بگیر و زر و سیم
     چون بیایی خاص باشی و ندیم

     īnak īn xal'at bigīr u zar u sīm
     čōn biyāyi xās bāšī u nadīm

     Look now, receive this robe of honour and gold and silver; when thou comest [to the king], thou wilt be a favourite and boon-companion.

Adverb

اینک • (inak)

1. now; already; by now